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This invention relates to cash registers and the like and moreparticularly to machines of the type shown and described in LettersPatent of the United States No. 1,230,864, issued 6 to \V. A. Chryst onJune 26, 1917, and Letters Patent of the United States Nos. 1.242. 70and 1,394,256, issued to F. L. Fuller on Oct. 9, 1917, and Oct. 18,1921, respectively and in Letters Patent of the United States No.1,619,796, issued to the present inventor, on March 1, 1927.

One object of this invention is to provide a machine of the general typeshown herein with differentially adjustable levers for setting up theamount, kind of transaction, clerk's initial, etc, instead of banks ofdedepressihle keys as is usual in these machines.

Another object of this invention is to provide machines at this typewith a special key 20 for releasing the machine for operation.

Another-object is to provide a device for removing the ink andimpression rollers as a unit from the machine.

Another object is to enable the operator sinmltaneously to move theinking and impression rollers away from the type carrying roller-sinorder to insert the record strip between them previous to an operationof the machine.

lVith these and incidental objects in View, the invention consists incertain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, theessential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and apreferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described withreference to the drawings which accompany and form part of thisspecification.

Of said figures:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the mach ne embodying the presentinvention.

Fig. 2 is a left hand side elevation of the machine illustrating a partof the motor drive, a part of the automatic check controlling mechanismand a portion of the printing mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the machine taken alongside one of theamount banks.

Fig. 4 is a detail side elevation of the mech 1922. Serial No. 576,925.

anism for returning the levers to their normal positions at the end ofan operation.

Fig. 5 is a section through the machine taken alongside one of theamount banks but llooking in the opposite direction from that in Fig. '6is a detail side elevation of the setting lever for the'clerks bank andthe mechanism cooperating therewith, together with one of the totalizeractuating segments and its driving means.

Fig. 7 is a detail front view of one of the amount setting levers.

Fig. 8 is a detail side view of the mechanism shown in Fig.7.

Fig. 9 is a disunited perspective view illustrating one unit of theamount differential mechanism.

Fig. 10 shows the mechanism for causing two revolutions of the drivingmechanism during a totalizing operation. This view also shows therelease or motor key and part of the mechanism cooperating therewith.

Fig. 11 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 11-11 of Fig. 10,looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 12 is a View of one of the totalizer lines and the mechanism forsliding the totalizers thereon.

Fig. 13 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 1313 of Fig. 12.

Fig. 14 is a detail view of part of the mechanism for releasing themachine.

Fig. 15 is a view looking toward the left and illustrates the drivingconnections from the main shaft to the printer shaft and also themechanism for permitting only one revolution-of the printer shaft whilethe main shaft makes two revolutions during totalizing operations.

Fig. 16 is a detail view of the driving and retaining pawls for theprinter drive shaft and shows their connection with said shaft.

Fig. 17 is a view of the total lever and the plate for controlling thetotalizers on total taking operations. Part of the mechanism forreleasing themachine is also shown in this figure.

' Fig. 18 is a front view of the printing mechanism with part of thecheck roll broken away.

Fig. 19 is a detail view of the upper ini pression operating mechanism.

Fig. 20 is a detail view of the operating mechanism for the checkperforator and the check in'ipressions.

Fig. 21 is a section taken through the printing mechanism.

Fig. 22 is a dead end view of the removable carriage which contains theinking and impression rollers, and shows the mechanism for moving theserollers away from the electro roller to permit easy passage of the checkstrip between them. The mechanism is shown in its moved position herein.

Fig. 23 is a left side view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 22.

Fig. 24. is a rear view of the mechanism of Fig. 22.

Fig. 25 is a section through the printer mechanism showing the racks forsetting the type wheels.

Fig. 26 is a sectional view partly broken awayshowing the type wheelaliners and the type wheel rack aliners.

F ig. '27 is a detail view of the type wheel rack alincr operatingmechanism.

Fig. 28 is a top plan view of the type wheel line and the associatedtube lines for operating the same.

Fig. 29 is a horizontal sectional view through the centers of the tubelines.

Fig. 30 is a view of the single check issued by the machine.

Fig. 31 is a view of the stub check having two impressions thereonprinted by the machine.

Fig. 82 is a view of the type of slip with its duplicate adapted to beused with the present machine.

Fig. 83 is a. view of the back of the stub check shown in Fig. 31, andshows the space for any desired advertising matter.

Fig. 34 is a fragmentary View of the detail strip printed by thismachine.

IN GENERAL The machine in which the presentinvention is embodied is ofthe type known in the art as lever-set. Instead of push-in keys such asare generally employed in a machine of the general class in which thismachine belongs, there are provided a series of levers operating invertical lcverways in the front of the machine. There is one lever foreach denomination of an amount to be set up. the machine being capableof entering $999.99 at one operation. It is of course understood thatthis registering capacity can be either increased or decreased withoutin any way departing from the spirit of the invent-ion. One lever isprovided to select the departn'ienttotalizer to be operated and tocontrol the setting up of the appropriate indicators and type wheels.Likewise, levers are provided for the clerks and transaction banks.

The usual total lever for controlling the machine in total and sub-totaloperations, which is common in machines of this type, is used herein.

At the extreme right of the machine is a single key which is used torelease the machine for operation.

The entire machine is enclosed in a suitable cabinet 65 of the usualdesign.

Operating mccllmizls-m-.The motor used to operate the present machine isof the well known type illustrated and described in Lettcrs Patent ofthe United States No. 1.144.418. granted to Charles F. Kettering andWilliam A. Chryst on June 29,1915. For a detailed description of thesame, reference may be had to that patent. Only a part of the motorframe, the motor switch and a part of the clutch mechanism for the motorare shown in the accompanying drawm s.

The motor is carried by a frame 75 (Fig. 2) mounted on the left sideframe 76. A

clutch shell 77 forming one part of the' clutch device, and shown insection is rotated through means (not shown) operated by the motor. Aclutch disk 78 is located inside of the clutch shell 77 and is fast on asleeve 106 supported by a stud 107 mounted in the machine frame. Thedisk 78 cooperates with rollers 7 9 carried by a disk 80 loose on sleeve106 and is connected thereby to the clutch shell 77 upon release of themachine. as fully shown and described in the a forcsaid Kettering andChryst patent. A disk similar to disk 80 and located directly behind itin Fig. 2, is fast on sleeve 1.06, acts as a rigid stop for the machine.Both disks have shoulders 81 engaged by the forked end of a lever 82mounted on a stud 83 on the frame 76. An arm 84 of lever 89. carries aroller 85 which normally rests upon the curved edge 86 of a lever 87fastened on a shaft 88 which extends across the entire machine.

hen the lever 87 is rocked counter-clockwise to release the machine. aswill be hereinafter described. the lever 82 is rocked counter-clockwiscout of engagement with the shoulders 81 by a spring 95. Countw-clockwisemovement of the lever 82 is limited by a stud 96 on the frame 76. Uponrelease of the lever 82 a cam disk forming part of the clutch (notshown) is moved by spring action, as fully described in the abovementioned Ket tcring and Chryst patent. The movement of this cam diskrocks a lever 97, pivotally mounted on frame 76, in a clockwisedirection. The upper end of the lever 97 engages a roller 98 carried bya lever 99 pivoted at 100 to the main frame and rocks said leverclockwise, whereupon an insulated portion of said lever moves a contactspring 102 into engagement with a contact point 103, thereby closing thecircuit through the motor. A gear 108 is fast on the sleeve 106 andthrough a gear 109 drives a gear 111 fast on a cam shaft 112 mounted inthe frames of the machine. Through this gearing the cam shaft 112 isrotated once at each operation of the machine.

For the purpose of restoring the lever 82 to locking position near theend of the operation of the machine a link 113 is pivoted at 11 1 tosaid lever. The gear 109 carries a pin 115 which near the end of anoperation of the machine engages a curved portion 116 of the link 113and raises the link, thereby moves the lever 82 clockwise to its normalposition.

The lever 87 is rocked clockwise to normal position just before the pin115 passes out of engagement with the link 113 in order to retain thelever 82 in its normal position.

The means for rocking the shaft 88 clockwis (Figs. 10 and 17) to releasethe motor clutch mechanism, previously described, includes a lever 160(Fig. 10) fast on said shaft. The lever 160 carries a screw stud 1G1upon which are pivoted two spring clips 102 the lower ends of which aresurrounded by a coil spring 163 compressed between shoulders on thespring clips 162 and the end of a slot 176 in a link 177 alsosurrounding the stud 161. From this it can be seen that as soon as thearm 197 is released from the stud 198 by the depression of the releasekey 180 (as will be hereinafter described) the spring 163 will rock thelever 160 and consequently the shaft 88 clockwise (Figs. 10 and 17).This movement is limited by a projection 178 on the lever 1G0 contactingwith a stud 179 on the right hand side frame.

The means for restoring the shaft 88 to its normal position is asfollows: Pivoted on a stud 117 is a lever 118 carrying a pin 209projecting into an opening 221 in the link 177. The lever 118 carries ananti-friction roller 222 projecting into a cam groove 223 in the gear123. It will be remembered this this gear receives one-half a rotationat every adding operation of the machine. Therefore there are two nodes224 in the groove 223. The pin 209 normally rests on a shoulder 253.Near the end of the half rotation of the gear 123 one of the nodes 224through the roller 222 rocks the lever 118 clockwise and the pin 209moves the link 177 downwardly in the direction of its length whereby theupper part of the slot 176 engages the stud 161 and rocks the lever 160and shaft 88 first counter clockwise past normal position and thenclockwise to normal position, in which position the pawl 197 (Fig. 14)is again in contact with the flat stud 198 on lever 199 and therebymaintains the shaft 88 in its normal position.

It may sometimes be necessary to operate the machine by hand instead ofusing the motor. For this reason there is provided a crank handle 120(Fig. 10) removably mounted on a stud in the right hand side frame ofthe machine. Integral with the crank 120 is a sleeve 121 connected to agear 122 meshing with a gear 123 mounted on a stud 124 projecting fromthe right hand side frame. The gear 123 meshes with a gear 125 fast onthe shaft 112. The ratio of the gears 122, 123 and 125 is such that tworotations of the gear 122 will give one rotation to gear 125 andconsequently the shaft 112.

Operating Zcvers.For illustrative purposes let it be assumed that themachine described herein is being used in a department store wherein itis desirable to make a record of the amount of the sale, a record of thedepartment in which the sale is made, a record of the particular kind ofsale or transaction and a record of the clerk who registers saidtransaction.

The operating levers will now-be described as being adapted for use in astore wherein the above systen'i is in use. There are five amount levers130. one lever 131 to set up the proper department 1X to 9X; one lever132 which is adapted to set up various transactions, both regular andspecial; a lever 134 having eight positions for registering clerks andone position bearing the word List, in which position this lever isplaced when it is desired to enable the operator to add a. plural: ityof unrelated items. There is also a total lever 137 of well known formfor controlling the operation of the machine in total and sub-total.taking operations.

The amount and transaction levers are loose on sleeves 220 (Figs. 3, 4and 9), supported by plates 210 of their respective differential units.A rod 139 extending. through all of these sleeves is secured in theright hand frame of the machine. The levers project outward through thecabinet and are guided by frames 1-10 supported at their 11pper andlower ends respectively by rods 141 and 142. The levers are normally intheir uppermost or zero positions and are moved down for the purpose ofsetting them.

A spring-pressed pin 143 (Figs. 7 and 8) carried by each lever isadapted to cooperate with a series of depressions 144 in a bar 145carried by frames 140' to hold the levers flexibly in any one of theirpositions. Means is a so provided for positively locking a lever in itsselected position when the machine is released for operation. \Vhen therelease key is depressed the shaft 88 is given a counterclockwisemovement (Fig. Fast on this shaft are a plurality of short arms 146, onefor each lever. At their ends these arms each carry a pin cooperatingwith a slot in an arm 147 pivotally mounted on the frame 140. Pivoted toarm 147 is one end of a curved plate 148, the other end of which ispivoted to an arm 149 mounted on frame 140. Another plate 151 besideeach plate 148 is car- Lin ried by studs 152 and 153 mounted in theframe 140 and projecting through concentric slots in plate 148 andthrough angular slots 158 in plate 151. Also mounted on plate 148 aretwo rollers 154 and 155 projecting into slots 156 and 157 respectivelyin plate 151.

t can be seen from the above that when the shaft 88 is rockedcounter-clockwise (Fig. 3) the plate 148 will be raised due to its slotand pin connection therewith. This movement of the plate 148 throughrollers 154 and 155 coperating with slots 156 and 157 forces the plate151 inwardly to the extent and in the direction of the slots 158 inplate 151. This inward movement brings one of the S8l11i-CiI- culardepressions 150 over a stud 159 project ing from each lever, and lockssaid lever against i'uovement during the operation of the machine.

The means for returning the levers to their normal positions at the endof the operation will now be described. Integral with the hub portion ofeach lever is a seg ment gear 164 4), meshing with a segment gear 165rotatably mounted on a stud 166 in the frame of the differentialmechanism. The segment gear 165 has a downwardly extending tail 167carrying a roller 168 adapted to cooperate with a cam lever 169 pivotedto aplate 178 (Fig. which is riveted to the frame 211 of one of thedifferential units to be later described. This cam lever 169 alsocooperates with aroller 170 carried by a disk 171 fast on shaft 112. Itwill be remembered that this shaft is given one rotation at eachoperation of the machine and the roller 170 is so placed on disk 171that near the end of the operation it will strike the curved surface 172of the cam lever 169 and rock the said cam lever clockwise (Fig. 4).This movement of the cam lever 169 brings the curved surface 174 incontact with roller 168 and by this means rocks the segment 165clockwise, the segment 164 meshing therewith counter-cloclm ise, and thelever upward to its normal position.

Control or motor Zce;z .A control key or motor bar 180 (Figs. 1 and isprovided for releasing the machine for operation and closing the motorswitch when a motor is used. The key itself detachable from the machineso that it is possible for the proprietor to remove the key and therebyprevent operation of the machine until the same is replaced. The shank181 of the key has a long slot 182 out therein which fits over twoscrews 183 carried by a slide 184. The slide 184 is slidably mounted ontwo screws 185 and 186 which project through slots in the slide and arefast in the side frame of the machine. The slide 184 carries a pin 187(Figs. 10 and 17) which passes through a slot in one end of a two-armedlever 188 pivoted on the crank handle stud 119. The opposite end oflever 188 carries a pin cooperating with a slot in the end of an arm 189loosely mounted on a shaft 190 carried by the machine frames. The arm189 is connected to a hook-shaped cam arm 191 by means of a yoke 192.The inner curved surface of the cam arm 191 cooperates with a pin in thelower end of :1 depending arm 193 pivoted on the release shaft 88 (Fig.17). The arm 193 is made integral with a segment 194 by means of a yoke195. Segment 194 has gear teeth formed on its lower end which engagesimilar teeth carried by a sleeve 196 surrounding shaft 190. Integralwith the sleeve 196 is a release pawl 197 (Fig. 14) having a flattenedend abutting against the flat side of a half-round stud 198 carried byan arm 199 depending from a sleeve (not shown) surrounding shaft 88.This sleeve also has projecting therefrom a lug 200 the lower side ofwhich is flattened and engages a pin 201 carried by an arm 202 fast onshaft 88. This shaft 88 is adapted to be rocked clockwise (Fig. 14)under the influence of the spring 163, before mentioned but this rockingmovement for unlocking the machine and closing the motor switch cannottake place until the release key is depressed. When this is done thelever 188 is rocked counter-clockwise (Fig. 17) thereby rocking arm 189and cam arm 191 clockwise. The inner curved surface of cam arm 191 rocksarm 193 and through yoke 195 the segment 194 clockwise. teeth thereon,rocks sleeve 196 and its integral release pawl 197 counter-clockwise,thereby permitting the half-round stud carried by arm 199 to passbeneath the release pawl 197. As the lug 200 is integral with the arm199 it will be raised and permit the arm 202 and shaft 88 to be rocked,as before mentioned, to release the machine.

Near the end of the operation of the machine the shaft 88 is returned toits normal position, thereby moving arm 202 and stud 201counter-cloclm'ise. Stud 201 contacts with a cam surface 205 of arestoring pawl 206 loose on shaft 190 and rocks said pawlcounter-clockwise (Fig. 14). The pawl 206 has another cam surface 207which contacts with the stud 198 and when said pawl 206 is rocked itmoves the arm 190 counter-clockwise far enough for a spring 208 attachedto release pawl 1.97 to rock said projection in behind the flattenedportion of stud 198 and thereby hold it in its normal position.

Differential mcnlmm'sm.-The differential mechanism of the machine isemployed to differentially operate the different totalizers and toselect them for operation and also to set type carriers in the printingmechanism as controlled by the banks of amount levers and the banks ofcontrol levers. The amount differential mechanism will be describedfirst.

There is a differential unit for each of the This movement, through thegear five amount levers and four extra units of higher denominationwhich are operated in addin operations when it is necessary to transf rto them. Figure 9 is a disunited perspective view of one of thesedifferential units. Each unit is supported by hangers 210 and 211mounted on the rods 212. A rod 139 extends through the center of thedifferential units. including the transaction, department. and clerksunits and acts as a stabilizer for the said units.

Each differential unit is driven by a pair of cams 213 and 214 fast onshaft 112. Said cams cooperate with rollers 215 and 216 on a Y-shapedlever 217 pivoted on a stud 218 on the hanger 210. Sleeves 219 on rods212,

and the sleeve 220 on the rod 139, are securedin the hanger 210 andserve to properly space the hangers 210 and 211. A spacer 221 secured tothe hanger 210 spaces the lever 217 from the plate 210. The pairs ofcams 213 and 214 are arranged spirally on the shaft 112, that is, theunits cams are .set slightly ahead of the tens cams and the tens camsset slightly ahead of the hundreds cams, etc. This arrangement of, camsas illustrated in the above mentioned Chryst Patent No. 1,230,864 and isfor the purpose of making the transfer mechanism positively operated andalso to render the machine easier in its operation.

To the upper end of the lever 217 is pivoted a link 225 pivoted to adriving segment 226- loose on the sleeve 220. Clockwise movement of thecams 213 and 214 (Fig. 9) oscillates the lever 217 first clockwise andthen counter-clmzkwiso to normal position. This movement, through thelink 225 rocks the driving segments 226 first clockwise and thencounter-cloclnvise to normal position. As viewed in Fig. 3, thismovement is first counter-clockwise and then clockwise.

There are three differentially movable segments 227 mounted between twodisks 228 and 229 having fast thereto a hub 230 loose on the sleeve 220.The segments 227 operate totalizer pinions 231 of the upper, front andback totalizer lines to be hereinafter described. The segments 227, anddisks 228 and 229. are secured together so that they move as a unit. Thedifferentially movable disks 22S and 229 are connected to the invariablymoved driving segments '226 by a latch 232 carried by bell cranks 233and a link 234 pivoted at 235 and 2336 respectively to the disks 228 and229, and a block 237 secured between the two disks. A foot 238 of thelatch is normally held in engagement with the segment 226 above ashoulder 239 by aspring 240 stretched between the upper end of the arm234 and a pin carried by the disks 228 and 229. By this latch connectionthe disks 228 and 229 and segments 227 are rotated clockwise (Fig. 9),and counter-clockwise (Fig.

3), until an arm 241 integral with the bell crank 233 strikes a lug 242riveted to the side of each setting lever. \Vhen this occurs the bellcranks, 233 and link 234 are rotated clockwise (Fig. 3) orcounter-clockwise (Fig. 9), thereby disengaging the foot 238 from theshoulder 239. \Vhen this has taken place the foot 238 rides upon theouter periphery of the segment 226 as said segment continues itsinvariable movement. lVhen the latch is thus disconnected a forward endthereof engages one of a. plurality of notches 244 in a segmentallocking plate 245 mounted on the sleeve 219 on the rod 212 and rivetedto the hanger 210, the notch engaged corresponding with the position ofthe lug 242 carried by its lever. There are ten notches in the plate245, one for each of the nine amount and one zero positions of saidlever. When there is no amount lever set the latch is disconnected inthe zero position. Adjacent the disk 229 and loose on the hub 230 is areset spider 246 having integral therewith an arm 247. This armsurrounds a shouldered stud 248 carried by the bell crank 233. A clip249 in a groove (not shown) in the stud 248 holds the arm 247 in properlateral position. The arm 247 is in the plane of a zero stop pawl 250and when there is no setting lever moved the upper edge of arm 247strikes the zero stop pawl 250 (Figs. 3 and 5), whereby the bell crank233 and link are rocked to disengage the latch 232 from the drivingsegment- 226. If an amount lever is moved the zero stop pawl 250 ismoved out of its normal position, so that the latch will not bedisengaged at zero. The means for accomplishing this will now bedescribed.

Each amount lever 130 carries a pin 260 (Fig. 5) which cooperates with acam surface 261 of a curved link 262 pivoted to one arm of a bell crank263. The link 262 also carries a pin 264 projecting through a slot inone arm of a two-armed lever 265, pivoted on a curved bar 266 supportedat its upper end by the other arm of the above mentioned bell crank 263and at its lower end by an arm 267 fast on a sleeve 268 supported by astud in the frame 140. Also fast on sleeve 268 is an am 269 which has apin projecting through a slot in the downwardly extending arm of thetwo-armed lever 265. It can be seen that when a lever 130 is moved thepin 260 through cam surface 261 rocks the link 262 clockwise about thearm of hell crank 263 to which it is attached. This movement rocks thetwoarmed lever 265 counter-clockwise (Fig. 5) and through the slot andpin connection rocks arm 269, sleeve 268 and arm 267 clockwise. As arm267 is pivoted to the lower end of the curved bar 266, this bar will belowered and the bell crank 263 carrying the link 262 will be rockedclockwise, thereby moving the pivotal point of link 262 outwardly andgiving to the link 262 a parallel movement when actuated by pin 260. Thearm 267 has a depend ing tail 270 cooperating with a pin pro ect1ng fromthe Zero stop pawl 250. When arm 267 is rocked clockwise, as abovedescribed, the tail 270 will engage the said pin and rock the zero stoppawl on its pivot far enough to permit the latch 232 to pass by on itsupward movement.

When the segment 226 is rocked counterclockwise (Fig. 9) it engages apin 256 carried by the disks 228 and 229 and restores said plates totheir normal positions during which time the segments 227 add upon thetotalizer pinions The time at which the segment 229 engages the pin 256may vary according to the position to which the lever has been moved. inother words, if the lever is moved to the 2 position the segment 226does not engage the pin 256 until near the end of its movement. However,if the lever is moved to the 9 position and the latch disengaged at 9the pin 256 is engaged immediately upon the return movement of thesegment 226, thereby causing a greater rotation of the correspondingtotalizer pinion 231. The totalizer pinions are rocked into engagementwith the segment 227 after the latches 232 have been connected in addingoperations so that as the segments 227 are returned to their normal.positions the amounts as determined by the position at which the leverhas been moved, are accumulated on said pinions.

lilecl'ianism is provided herein for transferring from lower to higherdenominations when this becomes necessary. No description of thisn'icchanism, however, will be included herein, as it is old and wellknown in connection with machines of this type. A detailed descriptionof this mechanism and its operation is given in the previously mentionedShipley patent, No. 1,619,796, and also in U. S. Letters Patent No.1,242,170, granted to F. L Fuller, and reference is hereby made thereto.

The differentially movable disks 228 and 229 and the segments 227 arealso hereinafter described in connection with the total and sub-totaltaking operation.

Associated with the differential mechanism is a beam 275 (Figs. 3 and 9)pivoted on a stud 276 carried bythe disks 228 and 229. The beam 275 hasa slot 277 surrounding a pin 278 on a link 279 pivoted to a segment 280to be hereinafter described in connection with the indicating mechanism.Said link 279 is connected at its lower end by means of a pin 282 to anarm 281 loose on a rod 283 mounted in the machine frames. Secured to thearm 281 is a spiral segment 284 the function of which will behereinafter described in connection with the printing mechanism.

From the above description it can be seen that the end of the beam 275which is pivoted on stud 276 is difierentially positioned when the disks228 and 229 are differentially set under the control of the levers 130.

As previously described, the levers 217, through the link and thesegment 226, drive the disks 228 and 229 until the latch 232 isdisconnected by a lever 130. The lever 217 carries a roller which uponthe counterclockwise movement (Fig. 3) of the lever engages the loweredge of the beam 275 near the center thereof and rocks said beam aboutthe stud 276 until a surface 286 (Fig. 3) of said beam engages theperiphery of the hub 230 which extends through the disks 228 and 229.During this movement of the beam, the link 279 is moved and therebypositions the segment 280 and the arm 281 to differentially position theindicating and printing mechanism respectively in accordance with thepositioning of the differentially movable disks and 229, as controlledby the amount levers.

Dzflerential 1n00/1mzis1n-cler7fis.'lflie differential mechanism whichcooperates with the clerks lever 134: (Fig. 6), is similar to that usedwith the amount levers except that the differentially movable segments227, and disks 228, 229 are omitted and are replaced by an arm 290 (Fig.6) loose on the sleeve 220 for this unit. The arm 290 carries a latchdevice including the bell crank 233, link 234 and arm 241, a latch 232,and a spring 240, and is identical with that described in connectionwith the amount differential mechanism. This latch device connects thearm 290 to a segment 226 identical with the segment 226 associated withthe amount differential mechanism.

The segment 226 for this bank is driven by a mechanism identically thesame as that which drives the segments associated with the amountditferential mechanism, and which includes the link 225, the lever 217carrying rollers 215 and 216 cooperating with cams 213 and 214 fast onthe shaft 112.

To the arm 290 is pivoted the usual beam 275, bifurcated to surround thepin 278 on the link 279 associated with the clerks bank. This link isconnected to the segment 280 of the indicating mechanism associated withthe clerks lever and to the arm 281 rigid with the spiral segment 284associated with the clerks lever.

Differential mechanism associated with the department lever 131 and thetransaction lever 132 is practically the same as that just described inconnection with the clerks lever 134. Therefore, it is not thoughtnecessary to again either illustrate or describe this mechanism.

T0taZizers.In the present machine three totalizer lines are provided andmechanism for shifting the totalizer lines to select various totalizersis also provided, as is well known in the art. In addition, a totalizerline selecting mechanism is provided with

